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==Inspiration== [[File:Pont JC Detail.jpg|thumbnail|upright|Detailing on the Jacques Cartier Bridge.]] A bust of Jacques Cartier<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jacquescartierchamplain.ca/community-heritage/structures-and-projects/jacques-cartier-bridge/buste/?lang=en |title=Jacques Cartier Bridge: Bronze Bust |work=Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges |location=Montreal, Canada |access-date=April 24, 2021 }}</ref> is located at the exit leading to Île Sainte-Hélène and was donated by France. The bridge follows the general design concept of the [[Quebec Bridge]]. It was, in turn, one of the design influences for the [[Story Bridge, Brisbane|Story Bridge]], in [[Brisbane]], [[Australia]], which was completed in 1940.<ref name=Brisbane>{{cite book |title=Brisbane Then and Now |last=Gregory |first=Helen |year=2007 |publisher=Salamander Books |location=Wingfield, South Australia |isbn=978-1-74173-011-1 |page=92}}</ref> Its imposing steel structure of its main section most likely inspired the designers of [[J. C. Van Horne Bridge]] spanning the [[Restigouche River]] between [[Campbellton, New Brunswick|Campbellton]], [[New Brunswick]] and [[Pointe-à-la-Croix, Quebec|Pointe-à-la-Croix]], Quebec. This bridge was not built until 1958.{{Original research inline|date=December 2014}}
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